Re: displaying octal sequences in emacs 21.3.1

[Roland Winkler]

"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Roland Winkler <Roland.Winkler@physik.uni-erlangen.de>
>> Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 21:32:02 +0200
>> 
>> > Try this:
>> > 
>> >  M-: (standard-display-default 128 255) RET
>> 
>> The above is from five years ago. It worked fine up to emacs 21.2.1
>> (as far as I can go back). Now I am using emacs 21.3.1 or CVS emacs.
>> What should I do to get the same result?
>
> Does the above fail to produce the same effect as 5 years ago?

That's exactly my problem. Say, I start a fresh emacs --no-init-file.
Then I load a file that contains some german umlaute (iso-8859-1).
Then I do
 M-: (standard-display-default 128 255) RET

When I do all this with emacs 21.2.1 I see the octal sequences as
expected. When I do all this with emacs 21.3.1 or CVS emacs, the
umlaute are still displayed as umlaute.

Roland